Yu Can'er glanced at him, "Xi Cheng, I saw that your water quality is not bad just now, do you often swim in the Jade River?"
” Xi Cheng stuck out his tongue, "Uncle Yu, I won't tell you, grandpa, he never let me get close to the riverbank, today is the first time I have come to the river so big, you must not tell him." ” Yu Can'er glanced at him deeply, and after a long time, she stretched out her little finger, "I keep this secret for you, but you have to promise me one thing." ” "Uncle Yu, what's the matter?"
Xi Cheng was suspicious.
"If I ask you to do me a favor in the future, you must remember the debt you owe me today, and no matter what, you must do your best to achieve it, and you must not regret it."
Although Xi Cheng was strange, he still promised on his mouth: "I owe Uncle Yu a life, and I can't overdo anything to repay it, I promise you." ” Yu Can slapped him on the shoulder, then got up and left, Xi Cheng was frightened just now, and he had no intention of playing in the water anymore, he put on his clothes and was just about to leave, but there was a voice from Er Niuzi behind him, "Landlubber, what's the matter, are you afraid?"
You don't dare to go into the water alive or dead, do you?
” Xi Cheng grimaced at him, "I've been swimming back and forth in the water a few times, you just came, I'm not interested now, I'm ready to go back." ” Er Niuzi scraped his face a few times with his fingers, "I'm just scared, coward, the children in the village are the least daring of you." ” Where was Xi Cheng willing to let him go, he ran over, pinched Er Niuzi's chubby face, and the two twisted into a strand and walked towards the other side of the bridge while fighting.
Halfway through, a person scurried out of the woods next to him, and the man shook twice at the edge of the forest, and suddenly disappeared into the woods, so frightened that both of them stopped, and stared blankly at the direction in which the man disappeared.
"Was it a human or a ghost?"
Er Niuzi couldn't say anything, he pointed to the bushes, and hid behind Xi Cheng.
"In broad daylight, where the hell did you come from?"
Xi Cheng was also afraid, but he had just been scolded for being a coward, so he couldn't show half a bit of fear anymore, so he could only pretend to pat Er Niu Zi easily, "Hey, you won't be scared, right?"
It seems that the most timid person in the village is not me. ” "Who's scared?
Let's go, let's take a look, whoever doesn't dare to go is the king. ” "Just go."
Xi Cheng swallowed his saliva and took the lead in climbing down the railing of the bridge, he turned his head and looked at Er Niuzi defiantly, "Follow?"
” Er Niuzi was afraid and didn't want to be the eighth king, so he had to climb over the railing and walk side by side with Xi Cheng towards the bushes.
In summer, the woods are so dense that you can't see anything a few feet away, and the sunlight is obscured by the layers of branches overhead, and the whole forest is dark and damp, and it really looks like a place where ghosts are happy to haunt.
Xi Cheng and Er Niuzi already regretted it the moment they entered the woods, but neither of them could ask to leave first, because whoever spoke first would be caught by the other party for a lifetime, and the price was too great for either of them to afford.
So the two of them could only bite the bullet and walk towards the depths of the forest step by step, but their steps became slower and slower, and their steps became more and more worried, just like the ups and downs of their hearts.
After walking for a while, a small temple loomed into the corner, and Er Niuzi stabbed Xi Cheng, "Could it be that someone went to the temple to worship and was seen by us." ” Xi Cheng listened to what he said, and the fear in his heart suddenly let go of six or seven points, he nodded, "Then let's go to the temple and see if there is anyone, and then go home, okay?"
” "Okay, okay."
Er Niuzi had never reacted so quickly, he took Xi Cheng's hand and walked towards the small temple with him, but a figure flashed in the small temple, so frightened that he screamed, let go of Xi Cheng's hand and hid behind a big tree.
Xi Cheng was also frightened, but he could barely keep calm, and when he saw the person in front of him clearly, he couldn't help but sigh and feel an unprecedented relief, "Big brother, why are you here?"
” Liu Xuzhu nodded his forehead, "You kid, you scared me," he glanced at Er Niuzi next to him, his expression was a little more solemn, "Are you here to worship in the temple?"
” "What to worship, we don't even know who is in the temple."
Xi Cheng said with a smile.
The lines between Liu Xujiao's eyebrows deepened, "How long has this temple been here?"
” "I guess I had it before I was born, anyway, it's always been here in my memory," Xi Cheng looked at him carefully, "Big brother, what are you asking these for?"
Could it be that this temple is the same as the dream last night" He glanced at Er Niuzi, remembering that Liu Xujiao asked him to keep it a secret, so he stopped talking.
Liu Xuzhu looked into the temple, and made a gesture to the two of them to come in, Xi Cheng and Er Niuzi looked at each other, and suddenly became a little curious about this small temple that they had never paid attention to.
The temple is very small, the space has been crowded with three people standing there, the incense burner in front is full of incense, a few of which are still burning sparks, apparently not long ago there were people who came to worship, the incense burner is facing a table, there is no god or Buddha on the table, but a copper tray, in the plate is a stack of clothes, a stack of white satin clothes.
"Why is there no statue in this temple, only a stack of clothes?"
Erniuzi asked, grabbing his head.
"Yes, why is this a well-dressed temple, why don't people want to set up a statue for the person who receives the incense?"
Xi Cheng also wondered in his heart.
"Maybe it's because I'm afraid."
Liu Xujiao said softly on the side, he already had an idea in his heart: Miss Leng was thinking about this bridge before she died, but after all, she still couldn't escape the fate of tragic death, and the villagers were afraid that she would be wronged, so they built this temple next to the bridge and brought her clothes here to worship them to soothe her unwillingness.
But what is the use of building a small temple?
Liu Xujiao sneered in his heart, burning incense and building a temple to comfort him is nothing more than himself, what role can he do to the deceased?
"yes, why did I never think about why there was a small temple here?"
Erniuzi explained the key point of the matter in one sentence.
"Because of a weak heart."
Xi Cheng said these words without even thinking about it.
"Weak heart?"
"Well, grandpa said that only people who are not clean in their hearts will ask God to worship Buddha, and the people who built this temple must have ghosts living in their hearts."